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Logging Equipment Operators

SOC 45-4022.00

Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush.

Zone 1 Farming, Fishing, and Forestry

Skills

Knowledge

Job Zone

Green

Top Skills 8

Operation and Control

4.0

Operation Monitoring

3.8

Equipment Maintenance

3.1

Active Listening

3.0

Monitoring

3.0

Troubleshooting

3.0

Quality Control Analysis

3.0

Critical Thinking

2.9

Knowledge Areas 8

Mechanical

4.2

Public Safety and Security

3.5

Production and Processing

3.4

Transportation

2.7

Administration and Management

2.3

Customer and Personal Service

2.1

Engineering and Technology

2.0

Mathematics

1.9

Key Tasks

1Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks.

2Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees.

3Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards.

4Drive straight or articulated tractors equipped with accessories such as bulldozer blades, grapples, logging arches, cable winches, and crane booms, to skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush.

5Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processing and loading.

Also Known As

Buncher Operator Chain Hooker Cutter Operator Delimber Delimber Operator Equipment Operator Feller Buncher Operator Feller Operator Forder Operator Grapple Skidder Operator